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I spent some time in a studio where I was exposed daily to the wedding portrait work of classical realist Stephen Gjertson (search Yahoo; lots of sites), whose work was so strong, so compelling, that some viewers probably wished they could marry one of the subjects. Years ago, he did a series of them for promotional purposes. My information is that they went nowhere.
Having been married 25 years, and having looked at our very professional wedding portraits only 2 or 3 times in the past 24-7/8 years, I suspect that the "problem" with bridal/wedding portraits is that they capture such a brief, fleeting, innocent and naive moment in our lives, we want in a portrait something more of the mature, lasting quality of the individuals, something that rarely reveals itself until several years after the typical youthful marriage.
I don't know if that's reasonable or not, but there has to be SOME explanation for why bridal and wedding portraits are relatively rare. Perhaps it's because they're more a portrait of an event than of the personalities of the people involved, and for the purpose of recording the event, photographs are the way to go.
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